Lading band anchor arrangement



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I 6 vqiiornqy Aug. 21, 1956 F. P. ADLER LADING BAND ANCHOR ARRANGEMENT Filed Nov. 28, 1952 2 Shee ts-Sheet 2 WNW Invendtlor' rank'li P. A 6)" B 60.2 W M United States Patent LADING BAND ANCHOR ARRANGEMENT Franklin P. Adler, Michigan City, Ind., assignor to Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company, Chicago, 11]., a corporation of Delaware Application November 28, 1952, Serial No. 323,058

8 Claims. (Cl. 105-669) This invention relates to railway freight cars and is primarily concerned with a lading strap anchor arrangement for a railway box car.

'lhe principal object of the invention is to provide a ladmg strap anchor arrangement including an elongated flat guide plate and an elongated member disposed in a depression in the guide plate, the guide plate and the member being both flush with one face of a Wall of a railway freight car to prevent the corners of boxes, cartons, packages and the like from getting caught on the anchor arrangement.

Another object of the invention is to provide in a railway freight car having a wall provided with a slot in one face thereof, an elongated flat guide plate positioned in the slot flush with said face and secured to the wall and provided with a longitudinally extending depression and spaced opposed pairs of transverse depressions on respectively opposite sides of the longitudinal depression in communication therewith and an elongated member positioned in the longitudinal depression flush with said face of the wall and secured thereto, a lading strap being adapted to be threaded around the member, and each 0 posed pair of transverse depressions forming a guideway for entering the lading strap.

Another object of the invention is to provide in a railway freight car a vertically disposed wall having an inside lining provided with a vertically extending slot and a vertically disposed elongated flat guide plate positioned in the slot flush with the inside lining and secured to the- Wall, the guide plate being provided with a longitudinal depression and spaced opposed pairs of transverse depressions on respectively opposite sides of the longitudinal depression in communication with the longitudinal depression and a vertically disposed flat metal bar positioned in the longitudinal depression flush with the inside lining and secured to the wall, a lading strap being adapted to be threaded around the metal bar, with each opposed pair of transverse depressions forming a guideway for entering the lading strap behind the bar.

A further object of the invention is to provide in a railway freight car a side wall having an inside lining provided with a vertically extending slot and a vertically disposed elongated fiat guide plate positioned in the slot flush with the inside lining and secured to the wall and provided with a longitudinal depression and spaced opposed pairs of transverse depressions on respectively opposite sides of the longitudinal depression in communication with the longitudinal depression and tapering from the adjacent side of the longitudinal depression to the adjacent side of the guide plate, a vertically disposed flat metal bar positioned in the longitudinal depression flush with the inside lining and secured to the wall, a lading strap being adapted to be threaded around the metal bar, and each opposed pair of transverse depressions forming a guideway for entering the lading strap behind the bar.

A more specific object of the invention is to provide in a railway box car a side wall having a side sheathing and an inside lining provided with a vertically extending slot extending substantially full height of the side wall, a side post disposed behind the slot, a vertically disposed elongated flat guide plate positioned in the slot flush with the inside lining and extending substantially full height of the side Wall, the guide plate being provided with a longitudinal depression and spaced opposed pairs of transverse depressions on opposite sides of the longitudinal depression in communication with the longitudinal depression and tapering from the adjacent side of the longitudinal depression to the adjacent side of the guide plate, a vertically disposed flat metal bar positioned in the longitudinal depression flush with the inside lining and extending substantially full height of the side wall, and means securing the metal bar and the guide plate to the post, a lading strap being adapted to be threaded around the metal bar with each opposed pair of transverse depressions forming a guideway for entering the lading strap behind the bar through the longitudinal depression.

The foregoing and other objects of the invention are attained by the construction and arrangement illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Fig. 1 is an interior side elevational view of a portion of a side wall of a railway box car with the lading strap anchor arrangement installed therein;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged interior side elevational view of a portion of the lading strap anchor arrangement shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4 is a cross sectional view taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2.

The invention proposes a lading strap anchor arrangement for a railway freight car. The inside lining on the side wall of the car is provided with a vertically extending slot therein extending substantially full height of the side wall. A vertically disposed elongated flat guide plate is positioned in the slot in the inside lining flush with the lining and extends substantially full height of the side wall. The guide plate is provided with a longitudinally extending depression and spaced opposed pairs of transversely extending depressions on respectively opposite sides of the longitudinal depression and in communication therewith. A vertically disposed fiat metal bar is positioned in the longitudinal depression in the guide plate flush with the inside lining and extends substantially full height of the side Wall. The metal bar and the guide plate are both bolted to the side wall. A lading strap is adapted to be threaded around the metal bar, and each opposed pair of transverse depressions form a guideway for entering the lading strap through the longitudinal depression behind the metal bar.

In the drawings, 10 generally designates a railway freight car or railway box car having side sills 11, a floor 12 positioned upon the side sills, side walls 13, side plates 14, and a roof 15. Each side wall 13 is comprised of outside sheathing 16 which is secured to its respective side sill 11 and to its respective side plate 14, an inside lining 17 spaced from the side sheathing, Z-shaped side posts 18 disposed between the side sheathing and the inside lining and to which the side sheathing and inside lining are secured and which extend substantially full height of the side wall. Each side wall 13 further includes a furring strip or nailer 19 hearing against one face of the web and one flange of its respective intermediate side post 18 and extending substantially full height of the side wall 13 for attachment of the inside lining.

A plurality of gussets 20 are arranged in vertically spaced relation with respect to each other along the intermediate side post 18 from the top to the bottom thereof. The gussets 20 are channel-shaped in transverse cross section and extend between one face of the other flange of the side post 18 and the other face of the web of the Patented Aug. 21, 1956 post and are secured to said flange and the web by welding. An additional furring strip or nailer 21 is spaced from the side post and bears against the gussets and extends substantially full height of the side wall. A plurality of carriage bolts 22 are arranged in vertically spaced relation with respect to each other and extend through the fum'ng strip 19, the web of the side post 18, and the furring strip 21, and are spaced above or below the adjacent gussets 20 and each have a nut 23 threaded on the end thereof.

The inside lining 17 is made up of the usual horizontally disposed tongue and groove boards 24 and is provided with a vertically extending slot 25 therein extending substantially full height of the side wall. At respectively opposite sides of the slot the lining, is nailed to the furring strips 19 and 21. A vertically disposed elongated fiat guide plate 26 is positioned in the slot 25 and separates the inside lining 17 at opposite sides thereof and is disposed flush with the exposed face of the lining, as best shown in Fig. 4, and extends substantially full height of the side wall, as best shown in Fig. 1. The guide plate 26 is provided with a longitudinally extending depression 27 therein extending its full length, and is provided with spaced opposed pairs of transversely extending depressions 28 on opposite sides of the longitudinally extending depression and in communication with the longitudinally extending depression. The transversely extending depressions 28 taper from the adjacent side of the longitudinally extending depression to the adjacent side of the guide plate, as best shown in Fig. 2. The transversely extending depressions 28 have the same depth as the longitudinally extending depression 27 at the place where the transversely extending depressions intersect the longitudinally extending depression. The guide plate 26 has integral flanges 29 extending its full length, and these flanges bear against the bounding edges of the inside lining 17 forming the slot 25. The specific shape of the guide plate 26 is obtained by a pressing operation.

A vertically disposed elongated member or flat metal bar 30 is positioned in the longitudinally extending depression 27 in the guide plate 26, flush with the exposed face of the inside lining 17. The flat metal bar extends substantially full height of the side wall and has a plurality of spaced pairs of opposite portions of its sides bent toward each other to a position of confronting relation with respect to each other, and these bent portions are designated 31. The bent portions 31 may be bent at any angle suitable to space the intervening portions 32 of the bar from the bottom of the depression 27 and maintain the surface of the bar flush with the inside lining. The accompanying drawings show the bent portions bent at an angle of 90 degrees. The metal bar 30 has a curved or channel-shaped transverse cross section at the places where the bent portions 31 are located, and the portions 32 of the bar between pairs of bent portions 31 are fiat in transverse cross section. The bent portions 31 are positioned against the bottom of the longitudinally extending depression 27, and the bent portions form legs to space the bar 30 from the bottom of the longitudinally extending, depression. It is to be noted that each flat portion 32 of the metal bar 30 is located between one of the spaced opposed pairs of transversely extending depressions 28 in the guide plate 26 and is spaced from the bottom of the longitudinally extending depression 27 in the guide plate.

The guide plate 26 and the metal bar 30 are both secured to the adjacent flange of the post 18 by a plurality of spaced machine screws or bolts 33 which extend through the metal bar and the guide plate and the flange of the post. Nuts 34 are threaded onto the machine screws 33 and are then welded to the abutting flange of the respective side post 18 so that the nut cannot possibly work loose. A lading strap 35 is adapted to be threaded around the Hat portion 32 of the metal bar 30 and each opposed pair of transversely extending depressions 28 form a guideway at each side of the bar for guiding the strap behind the bar through the portion of the longitudinally extending depression 27 between each opposed pair of transversely extending depressions, as best shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

The mode of assembling the lading strap anchor arrangement is as follows: First the holes for the bolts 33 are punched in the side posts 18 and the gussets are welded to the side posts. Next, the side posts 18, side sill 11, and side plate 14 are welded together to form a rigid frame. Then the outside sheathing is welded to this rigid frame. The resulting side wall is then assembled on the car. The guide plate 26 and bar 30 are bolted to the side posts 18 by the bolts 33 and the nuts 34. The nuts 34 are welded to the posts 18. The furring strips 19 and 21 are then bolted to the side posts by the bolts 22 and nuts 23. The lining 17 is placed in position and nailed to the furring strips 19 and 21.

In experimenting with guide plate and anchor bar arrangement which extend the full height of the side wall of the car it has been found that if the guide plate is spaced from the exposed face of the inside lining toward the outside of the car and the anchor bar is flush with the exposed face of the inside lining, the corners of boxes, cartons, packages and the like will get caught or cornered in the space between the guide plate and one side of the anchor bar. Similarly, if the guide plate is flush with the exposed face of the inside lining and the anchor bar is spaced from the face of the inside lining toward the outside of the car, the corners of boxes would be likely to become lodged against the exposed face of the anchor bar and between the bounding walls of the depression in the guide plate in which the anchor bar is disposed.

In the present disclosure, the guide plate 26 is flush with the face of the inside lining 17, and the metal bar 30 is flush with the guide plate and the inside lining-therefore the guide plate and the metal bar together present a flush surface between lading strap anchor locations so that the corners of boxes, cartons, packages and the like will not get caught between the guide plate and one side of the anchor bar or in the longitudinally extending depression 27.

Only one lading strap anchor arrangement has been described and only one side wall of the car has been shown, and the anchor arrangement was secured to this side wall. In practice, an anchor arrangement identical to the one shown in the drawings would be located on the opposite side wall of the car and opposite the anchor arrangement shown. As will be apparent, a pair of anchor arrangements are required to anchor both ends of a lading strap and the pair of anchor arrangements are usually located on opposite side walls of the car. In practice, a plurality of pairs of anchor arrangements are located on the side walls of the car to assure that there will be an adequate number of places to anchor all of the lading disposed between the ends of the car.

From the foregoing it will be seen that there has been provided a lading strap anchor arrangement wherein the guide plate and the anchor member are both flush with the inside lining on the side wall of the car so as to prevent lading containers from getting caught on the anchor arrangement.

What is claimed is:

1. In a freight vehicle, a wall provided with a slot in one face thereof, an elongated fiat guide plate positioned in the slot in the wall flush with said one face of the wall, the guide plate being provided with a longitudinally extending depression therein and provided with spaced opposed pairs of transversely extending depressions on opposite sides of the longitudinally extending depression in communication with the longitudinally extending depression, an elongated member positioned in the longitudinally extending depression in the guide plate flush with said one face of the wall and having substantially the same length as the guide plate, a plurality of vertically spaced means positioned between the member and th guide plate and secured to the member to space the member from the bottom of the longitudinally extending depression in the guide plate and to hold the member flush with said one faceof the wall and each means being disposed between two opposed pairs of transversely extending depressions leaving a space between each opposed pair of transversely extending depressions and the member, and means securing the member and the guide plate to the wall, a lading strap being adapted to be threaded through the adjacent space between the guide plate and the member and around the member and each opposed pair of transversely extending depressions forming a guideway at each side of the member for guiding the strap behind the member.

2. In a freight vehicle, a wall provided with a slot in the inner face thereof, an elongated flat guide plate positioned in the slot in the wall flush with the inner face of the wall, the guide plate being provided with a longitudinally extending depression therein and provided with spaced opposed pairs of transversely extending depressions on opposite sides of the longitudinally extending depression in communication with the longitudinally extending depression, a flat metal bar positioned in the longitudinally extending depression in the guide plate flush with the inner face of the wall and having substantially the same length as the guide plate, a plurality of vertically spaced means positioned between the bar and the guide plate and secured to the bar to space the bar from the bottom of the longitudinally extending depression in the guide plate and to hold the bar flush with the inner face of the wall and each means being disposed between two opposed pairs of transversely extending depressions leaving a space between each opposed pair of transversely extending depressions and the bar, and means securing the metal bar and the guide plate to the wall, a lading strap being adapted to be threaded through the adjacent space between the guide plate and the bar and around the metal bar and each opposed pair of transversely extending depressions forming a guideway at each side of the bar for guiding the strap behind the bar.

3. In a freight vehicle, a wall provided with a slot in the inner face thereof, an elongated fiat guide plate positioned in the slot in the wall flush with the inner face of the wall, the guide plate being provided with a longitudinally extending depression therein and provided with spaced opposed pairs of transversely extending depressions on opposite sides of the longitudinally extending depression in communication with the longitudinally extending depression and the transversely extending depression tapering from the adjacent side of the longitudinally extending depression to the adjacent side of the guide plate, a flat metal bar positioned in the longitudinally extending depression in the guide plate flush with the inner face of the wall and having substantially the same length as the guide plate, a plurality of vertically spaced means positioned between the bar and the guide plate and secured to the bar to space the bar from the bottom of the longitudinally extending depression in the guide plate and to hold the bar flush with the inner face of the wall and each means being disposed between two opposed pairs of transversely extending depressions leaving a space between each opposed pair of transversely extending depressions and the bar, and means securing the metal bar and the guide plate to the wall, a lading strap being adapted to be threaded through the adjacent space between the guide plate and the bar and around the metal bar and each opposed pair of transversely extending depressions forming a guideway at each side of the bar for guiding the strap behind the bar.

4. In a railway freight car, a vertically disposed wall having an inside lining provided with a vertically extending slot therein, a vertically disposed elongated flat guide plate positioned in the slot in the inside lining flush with the exposed face of the inside lining, the guide plate being provided with a longitudinally extending depression therein and provided with spaced opposed pairs of transversely extending depressions on opposite sides of the longitudinally extending depression in com munication with the longitudinally extending depression, a vertically disposed flat metal bar positioned in the longitudinally extending depression in the guide plate flush with the exposed face of the inside lining and having substantially the same length as the guide plate, a plurality of vertically spaced means positioned between the bar and the guide plate and secured to the bar to space the bar from the bottom of the longitudinally extending depression in the guide plate and to hold the bar flush with the exposed face of the inside lining and each means being disposed between two opposed pairs of transversely extending depressions leaving a space between each opposed pair of transversely extending depressions and the bar, and means securing the metal bar and the guide plate to the wall, a lading strap being adapted to be threaded through the adjacent space between the guide plate and the bar and around the metal bar and each opposed pair of transversely extending depressions forming a guideway at each side of the bar for guiding the strap behind the bar.

5. In a railway freight car, a side wall having an inside lining provided with a vertically extending slot therein, a-vertically disposed elongated flat guide plate positioned in the slot in the inside lining flush with the exposed face of the inside lining, the guide plate being provided with a longitudinally extending depression therein and provided with spaced opposed pairs of transversely extending depressions on opposite sides of the longitudinally extending depression in communication with the longitudinally extending depression, a vertically disposed flat metal bar positioned in the longitudinally extending depression in the guide plate flush with the exposed face of the inside lining and having substantially the same length as the guide plate, a plurality of vertically spaced means positioned between the bar and the guide plate and secured to the bar to space the bar from the bottom of the longitudinally extending depression in the guide plate and to hold the bar flush with the exposed face of the inside lining and each means being disposed between two opposed pairs of transversely extending depressions leaving a space between each opposed pair of transversely extending depressions and bar, and means securing the metal bar and the guide plate to the side wall, a lading strap being adapted to be threaded through the adjacent space between the guide plate and the bar and around the bar and each opposed pair of transversely extending depressions forming a guideway at each sideof the bar for guiding the strap behind the bar.

6. In a railway freight car, a side wall having an inside lining provided with a vertically extending slot therein extending substantially full height of the side wall, a vertically disposed elongated flat guide plate positioned in the slot in the inside lining flush with the exposed face of the inside lining and extending substantially full height of the side wall, the guideplate being provided with a longitudinally extending depression therein and provided with spaced opposed pairs of transversely extending depressions on opposite sides of the longitudinally extending depression in communication with the longitudinally extending depression, a vertically disposed fiat metal bar positioned in the longitudinally extending depression in the guide plate flush with the exposed face of the inside lining and extending substantially full height of the side wall, a plurality of vertically spaced means positioned between the bar and the guide plate and secured to the bar to space the bar from the bottom of the longitudinally extending depression in the guide plate and to hold the bar flush with the exposed face of the inside lining and each means being disposed between two opposed pairs of transversely extending depressions leaving a space between each opposed pair of transversely extending depressions and the bar, and means securing the metal bar and the guide plate to the side wall, a lading strap being adapted to be threaded through the adjacent space between the guide plate and the bar and around the metal bar and each opposed pair of transversely extending depressions forming a guideway at each side of the bar for guiding the strap behind the bar.

7. In a railway freight car, a side wall having an inside lining provided with a vertically extending slot therein extending substantially full height of the side wall, a vertically disposed elongated flat guide plate positioned in the slot in the inside lining flush with the exposed face of the inside lining and extending substantially full height of the side Wall, the guide plate being provided with a longitudinally extending depression therein and provided with spaced opposed pairs of transversely extending depressions on opposite sides of the longitudinally extending depression in communicathan with the longitudinally extending depression and the transversely extending depressions tapering from the adjacent side of the longitudinally extending depression to the adjacent side of the guide plate, a vertically disposed flat metal bar positioned in the longitudinally extending depression in the guide plate flush with the exposed face of the inside lining and extending substantially full height of the side wall, a plurality of vertically spaced means positioned between the bar and the guide plate and secured to the bar to space the bar from the bottom of the longitudinally extending depression in the guide plate and to hold the bar flush with the exposed face of the inside lining and each means being disposed between two opposed pairs of transverse-1y extending depressions leaving a space between each opposed pair of transversely extending depressions and the bar, and means securing the metal bar and the guide plate to the side wall, a lading strap being adapted to be threaded through the adjacent space between the guide plate and the bar and around the metal bar and each opposed pair of transversely extending depressions forming a guideway at each side of the bar for guiding the strap behind the bar.

8. In a railway box car, a side wall having a side sheathing and an inside lining spaced from the side sheathing and provided with a vertically extending slot therein extending substantially full height of the side wall and an intermediate side post disposed behind the slot and secured to the side sheathing, a vertically disposed elongated flat guide plate positioned in the slot in the inside lining flush with the exposed face of the inside lining and extending substantially full height of the side wall, the guide plate being provided with a longitudinally extending depression therein extending its full length and provided with spaced opposed pairs of transversely extending depressions on opposite sides of the longitudinally extending depression in communication with the longitudinally extending depression and the transversely extending depressions tapering from the adjacent side of the longitudinally extending depression to the adjacent side of the guide plate, a vertically disposed fiat metal bar positioned in the longitudinally extending depression in the guide plate flush with the exposed face of the inside lining and extending substantially full height of the side wall, a plurality of vertically spaced means positioned between the bar and the guide plate and secured to the bar to space the bar from the bottom of the longitudinally extending depression in the guide plate and to hold the bar flush with the exposed face of the inside lining and each means being disposed between two opposed pairs of transversely extending depressions leaving a space between each opposed pair of transversely extending depressions and the bar, and means securing the metal bar and the guide plate to the intermediate side post, a lading strap being adapted to be threaded through the adjacent space between the guide plate and the bar and around the metal bar and each opposed pair of transversely extending depressions forming a guideway at each side of the bar for guiding the strap behind the bar.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,226,667 Love Dec. 31, 1940 2,570,368 Moon Oct. 9, 1951 2,601,103 Dietrichson June 17, 1952 2,610,587 Pietzsch Sept. 16, 1952 

